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Wisconsin products: fish and dairy products produced at Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
They were a bit thick...
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So these three pictures were taken on the highway between Fennimore, Wisconsin and a sad little town by the name of Mt. Ida.
The Mt. Ida thing is weird since as I was taking these pictures it occurred to me how much the area here reminded me of Salmon Arm -- Salmon Arm, minus the mountains, of course. If you've trundled through my photos here or if you know me at all then you know that Salmon Arm is a town in BC's Shuswap area where I frequently go to relax and rest and recouperate, and in Salmon Arm there is a mountain called Mount Ida.
So yeah... Weird shit.
Built in 1928, this Art Deco-style skyscraper was built to house the offices of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. The building is clad in limestone with a classically-inspired tripartite composition. The two-story base of the building is relatively plain with limestone panel cladding, large storefront windows on the first floor, a front entrance with a large decorative transom and a canopy over the sidewalk, smaller one-over-one windows on the second floor, with the top of the base being demarcated by a band of extruded belt coursing at the base of the sills of the third-floor windows, with greek key motif on several portions. Above the base is the shaft of the building’s exterior composition, which features one-over-one windows with the middle bays in groups of three and four featuring decorative recessed spandrel panels featuring depictions of electrical generators, a unique choice and a nod to the building’s original tenant. The spandrel panels end at the base of the ninth floor windows, with the tenth floor windows being detached, forming part of the capital of the composition, with a band of extruded belt coursing around the base of the parapet, with volutes and stepped parapets enclosing the low-slope roof, and carved relief panels. The building has since become known as the Hovde Building, and houses several commercial office tenants.
Built in 1955-1957, this Modern International Style seven-story building was designed by Holabird, Root and Burgee and Law, Law, Porter and Nystrom to serve both as Madison City Hall and the Dane County Courthouse. The building was later expanded with a rooftop addition on the rear wing, though offices of both the City of Madison and Dane County have moved to the newer Madison Municipal Building and Dane County Courthouse located on adjacent blocks to the north and south of the building. The building is clad in limestone with ribbon windows interrupted at regular gridded intervals by columns clad in limestone, a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, dark polished stone cladding on the one-story front wing along Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, which features limestone cladding at the edges of the roof, a second story projected bay that cantilevers over the front entrance and is clad in limestone with vertical baffles between narrow and tall windows, aluminum entrance doors with large transoms and sidelights, aluminum modernist lettering mounted on the facade, and an original three-story rear wing clad in limestone panels with gridded fenestration and a setback third floor, with the addition being differentiated from the original building through its use of larger concrete panel cladding and smaller windows on the upper floors. The building continues to house some functions and offices of the City of Madison and Dane County government, and is an excellent example of a modernist city-county building, complimenting its older neighbors in scale and materiality.
The Wisconsin state capitol in Madison is large and impressive. I've also struck out twice in actually getting inside the building, including this past summer. I believe there are only four I haven't actually set foot in. (Virginia, Alaska, and Indiana are the other three.)
We had a long weekend of fun with our daughter and family at Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin. It is located in far NE Wisconsin and straddles both sides of the inlet between Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Visit rosy-finch.blogspot.com
Built in 1977, this modern skyscraper was constructed to house the offices of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company, and later housed the offices of United Bank. The building is clad in a curtain wall with alternating bands of bronze tinted windows and black spandrel panels, aluminum mullions, with hiker aluminum mullions at the base, and aluminum panels on the parapet, along with metal shade screens at the top of the building. To the southwest of the building is a one-story podium with a brick base and aluminum mullions and panel cladding. The building presently houses several commercial office tenants.
The 10th anniversary celebration for Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism on Thurs. Sept. 6, 2018 at Tripp Commons in Madison, Wis. Photo by Lauren Justice
Panel: Cara Lombardo, Mike Wagner, David Maraniss